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Title: New UK jet fighter
Post by: Jolly Roger on Tuesday, 17 July, 2018 @ 09:37:34
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The UK has unveiled a full-scale model of a planned new fighter jet, provisionally named Tempest, which would be operated remotely or by a pilot.

The aircraft is intended to replace the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft, beginning in 2035, and to fly alongside the UK's most recent addition to its fleet, the Lockheed F-35.

BAE, which worked on a consortium to build the Eurofighter jets, is working on the new aircraft without its former partner Airbus, which joined an alliance with French defence company Dassault after Britain voted to leave the European Union in 2016.

Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson unveiled the model at the Farnborough Air Show.

New UK jet fighter (http://www.euronews.com/2018/07/16/uk-unveils-model-of-new-jet-fighter-tempest?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=en&utm_content=uk-unveils-model-of-new-jet-fighter-tempest&_ope=eyJndWlkIjoiZTA4Zjc2NDA5ZmE3OWUwYjE5ZmJkZjVhZjVmZmQ3MTYifQ==)
Title: Re: New UK jet fighter
Post by: Maik on Tuesday, 17 July, 2018 @ 19:30:08
Does look quite nice in cerise

(http://goinggreek.info/gallery/1_17_07_18_7_27_40.jpeg)
Title: Re: New UK jet fighter
Post by: TonyD on Tuesday, 17 July, 2018 @ 22:52:30
Those wings like they'll need a lot of inflating.....or is it a microlight/kayak
Title: Re: New UK jet fighter
Post by: TonyKath on Friday, 20 July, 2018 @ 14:30:05
The pic on the Euronews site (linked above) shows it much better, though sadly not in puce. It's certainly an unfamiliar shape looking rather kayak-like as TonyD says or like a F1 car cockpit if you wanted to be more flattering! It's definitely small like probably there won't be a pilot.

Tony